Saturday, October 18, 2014

Global Humanity in Search of Peace, Not War

We, as Americans, need to ask ourselves what all this is
about? Why is our government so provocative toward Islam, Russia, China,
Iran? What purpose, whose purpose is being served? Certainly not
ours…………Where do we go from here? If not to nuclear destruction,
Americans must wake up. Football games, porn, and shopping malls are one
thing. Survival of human life is another. Washington, that is,
“representative government,” consists only of a few powerful vested
interests. These private interests, not the American people, control the
US government. That is why nothing that the US government does benefits
the American people. (Paul Craig Roberts (“The Next War on Washington’s Agenda.”

International Governance Lacks Moral and Intellectual Leadership

The UNO originated from the belief and commitment to avert futuristic
wars by men of new ideas pursuing peaceful means, diplomacy and
accountability to the global mankind. How sad and cynical it looks to
view the succeeding generations entrapped again into the same mindset of
warmongering and power politics as were the sadistic leaders before.
The UNO and its major organs responsible for global peace and security
have proven to be ceremonial debating clubs and acting contrary to the
essence and purposes of the Charter. The global humanity feels
tormenting pains and wants to foresee systematic change and development
of a new global organization responsible to the global community, not
the abstract Nation States. Like the past, once again few Western
egoistic leaders have manipulated the time and opportunities to dictate
and undermine the interests of the mankind. The global humanity is the
net object of all their deliberations but without any meaningful role in
challenging the few global warlords. America and few Europeans find
freehand to go anywhere and bomb the humanity at will. This is what
exactly happening in Iraq-Syria war theatre of the few. The ISIL is
picked up for bombing and to match the domestic political agenda and the
Badr Shia group and others alike are ignored to appease Iran and its
backdoor US alliance against the Sunnis.
The contemporary history speaks loud and clear that the United States
has an undeniable torrid history of creating and supporting terrorist
groups throughout the global political theatre. The CIA helped to evolve
and train Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and the same appears to be true of
the ISIS, now called ISIL fighting in Iraq and Syria. On the face of it,
the US policy makers claim to oppose the ISIL unleashed terrorism and
beheading of the few American and European prisoners and Islamic
extremism, they knowingly foment it as a weapon of foreign policy to
support military interventions in the Arab world. If diplomacy was the
norm to settle political conflicts, why is the US policy makers not
engaged in political dialogue with the ISIL?

The 21st century global politics have not produced any new leaders with
vision and integrity to imagine the universal phenomenon of peaceful
change and futuristic developments. There are no global organizations
managed by people of moral and intellectual vision and courage to serve
the interests of the global community. Man is a moral and intellectual
being articulating happiness and progress horizontally in peace-time,
but when fear of the unknown, hatred and animosity attempt to govern the
human consciousness, degeneration replaces human progress. America used
to be a leader of change and new strategies to envisage global
friendship, co-existence and harmony of the mankind. This week, morally
stressful and intellectually exhausted President Obama in his final
White House term of office, spoke at the UN Assembly and the Security
Council on global affairs and focused on threat of ISIL movement across
the war torn Arab world. George Bush and Obama have infested the Arab
culture with sectarian violence and military interventions. Both had no
vision for peaceful resolution of the problems which they engineered to
occupy and control the oil-exporting Arab countries. In crisis and
unusual nation and global emergencies, leaders offer intellectual
security to nation and people across the globe, not so by the in-between
drawing-room President. Morally and intellectually conscientious
American masses if they were waiting for swift actions to restore
confidence in the administration, it re-ignited many critical issues
being untouched by President. Obama at the UNO gathering as to political
accountability and how to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. America
faces multi-dimensional problems of its own failed foreign policy and
to clarify its delusional status-quo in global political affairs.

The continued American led bogus War on Terrorism has wide ranging
impacts on the America political and intellectual psyche. The
Washington-based war culture has incapacitated the US policy makers to
think rationally and act responsibly in global affairs. Strange as is,
President did not explain why every day 18-25 US war veterans commit
suicides? (“Why Do Soldiers Commit Suicide and Global Warlords.”
Uncommon Thought Journal: 4/14/2014). Moral and intellectual darkness
is renewed under the leadership of the Commander in-Chief of the US
armed forces. Do the leaders care to protect the precious human life?
Most contemporary politicians are not responsible leaders but stage
actors pretending to be representing the national interests. They learn
to excite the emotions of the electorates to win elections but fail to
act as responsible leaders. They view the humanity just in numbers, not
an object of precious life and value in the larger universal context.
Most often, these people are disconnected with the annals of normal
human thinking and affairs, suspicious and paranoid and they see success
to be achieved at the cost of ruthlessness, hatred, degeneration and
viciousness – all part of their inborn value system, making politics as a
dreadful game of egomaniac mind, deceptions and strategic priorities.
This requires intelligent commitment to principles of international
peace and security for all, non-aggression in the working of global
systems, protection of life and a balanced ecological culture of
co-existence within the encompassed Universe -Man and the Humanity.
America, a leading industrialized power is indifferent to these
pertinent factors of life.

One Humanity is Capable to Challenge the Ferocity of Wars

All wars perpetuate violence, fear and vindictiveness against mankind
and are aimed at destruction of civilizations and dehumanization of
succeeding generations. Bruce Gambrill Foster (“The Scourge Of War: The Shameless Marketing of Violence”
Information Clearing House: 9/14/1014) observes: “The connection
between combating the violence of organized crime, for example, and war
is easily bridged. In both, blood is spilled…. If even our simplest joys
are couched in terms of conflict, death and domination, what hope is
there to distinguish and abhor and eventually end the true villainy of
armed conflict, the scourge of war?” The global mankind is the net
victim of the catastrophic madness of the few warlords. Did Obama learn
anything from the past to change anything because of the knowledge,
history and facts of life to know his weaknesses and strengths of vision
and to change and reform his mind and behavior when facts warrant a
change, be it in policy making or global interactive behavior? After all
listening and learning are critical factors for the changing role of
the 21st century political leadership and so is the flexibility
mechanism to be built-in for effective leadership. But there are no
intelligent and proactive leaders with a vision of the future to see the
imperative of One Humanity except naïve and self-geared egomaniac full
of the sensation of power using triviality and viciousness to torture
and kill the mankind and destroy ecological habitats.

But contrary to the brutal perceptions and actions of the
US-former Europeans imperialists, the international community is
informed, mature, and enjoys the moral and intellectual capacity to know
and understand the facts of life and to challenge the politically
imperiled insensitivity to universal accord and Unity of the mankind
against brutality of the Terrorism of Wars that unites them with a
common fate more than divides them by any token of adversity and
separate national identities.

Progressively evolving is a new information-age plausible global culture
of Thinking of One Humanity and a new proactive civilization of strong
bonds and affinity of people to people cultural communications – global
citizenry participation in social, economic and political Thinking and
Globalization – man in one part of the world feels, thinks and
acts-reacts to what happens to any man in another remote corners of the
globe. Mankind is neither blind, nor inept, it defines its own purpose,
meaning and identity for peace and harmony that the established
institutions of governance – be it in America or Europe or elsewhere
miserably failed to recognize or value their importance in global
political affairs. Given the inherent systematic deficiencies and moral
and intellectual corruption in the US – European – worldwide political
governance and policy formulation toward the international community,
the global community is actively organized and morally and
intellectually powerful to oppose all the belligerent nightmares planned
and orchestrated by the US and its allies in the Arabian political
theatre. The US and its allies are using media as a weapon to instill
fear of the ISIL.

Towards Understanding Global Peacemaking and Not Empire-building

David Swanson (“ISIS, Weapons Makers, Thugs Benefit from This Crime.”
Dissident Voice: 9/23/2014), points out how the US weapon manufacturers
have increased the cost of weapon sales by 19% and are ultimately the
beneficiary of the war against ISIL. The coalition of war led by the US
against ISIL is nothing but a paradox of self-contradictory coercive
arrangement. The U.S. France, Germany, UK, Saudi Arabia, and Arab Gulf
countries aim is to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, which happens
to be the goal of ISIL and other groups fighting in Syria. If
authoritarian Bashar al-Assad is defeated, then ISIL will be the direct
beneficiary, since it is either defeating or absorbing the rest of the
Syrian armed opposition. The current sectarian wars do not appeal to any
holiest mission. The US is bombing to support its war economy and finds
a convenient pretext to kill the Arab people. Iran has few thousands of
Badr Shia group carrying out bloody atrocities against Sunnis in Iraq.
The ISIL and many other groups are aligned to protect the Sunnis and
manage the Caliphate. The coalition of Arab leaders takes comfort and
invests in distraction of the real political problems for societal
change and systematic legitimacy. None knows the end game and none have
the capacity to imagine peacemaking. Soon the new caliphate may stretch
unchallenged from Iraq-Syria landscape onward to the Mediterranean.
American politicians are used to ignore the imperatives of global
peaceful co-existence. Jacob G. Hornberger (“The Sordid Roots of the National Security State.”
The Future of Freedom Foundation: 12/29/2013), founder and president of
The Future of Freedom Foundation cite how the American leaders failed
to imagine peaceful co-existence with Russia- former Soviet Union:

Peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union was the last thing that
U.S. officials wanted. Peaceful coexistence wouldn’t justify the rise of
the permanent military establishment, a foreign empire of military
bases, a CIA, a NSA, covert operations, spying, foreign interventionism,
coups, assassinations, torture, surveillance, spying, and support of
foreign dictatorships. By “scaring hell out of the American people,”
U.S. officials could induce them to reject the founding principles of
their nation and support a communist-like and totalitarian-like
governmental structure grafted onto their constitutional system, all in
the new name of “national security” and protecting the nation from
communists and the Soviet Union.

We are witnessing an historic event and epic of empire-building.
Leaders claiming to be democratically elected, think and behave like
absolute emperors. President Obama appears to be standing at the
crossroads of his career and engaged in time-killing exercises, not an
intellectual and proactive person leading to the future-making. Mankind
needs morally and intellectually responsible leadership. All absolute
rulers and leaders tried to run down the mankind as if it was just a
number- a digit- and conscious-less entity. But all of them fell in
disgrace destroying their own nations and empires. This author had
first-hand opportunities to walk through the historic remains of many so
called great nations of their own time span who were playing lord of
the world but ended-up being destroyed by their own plans and designs
against the Nature of Things. America was enriched with intellectual
foresights to safeguard the rest of the mankind. But its contemporary
leaders and major institutions seem to defy the logic of co-existing
with the global community. For sure, American leaders lack even the
essence of Thomas Paine’s historic “Common Sense” to change, but
historical change will replace America’s global leadership image with
others, more understanding and relevant to the mankind. After eight
years of Bush-like warmongering, perpetuated hatred on others and
degenerating impacts, history will judge President Obama by his actions,
not by claims.

The black-clad fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,
sweeping a collapsing army and terrified Iraqis before them as they advance toward Baghdad,
reflect back to us the ghoulish face of American empire. They are the
specters of the hundreds of thousands of people we murdered in our
deluded quest to remake the Middle East…… The language of violence
engenders violence. The language of hate engenders hate. “I and the
public know what all schoolchildren learn,” W.H. Auden wrote. “Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.” It is as old as the Bible.

There is no fight left in us. The war is over. We destroyed Iraq as a
unified country. It will never be put back together. ….We are not, as
we thought when we entered Iraq…. We are something else. Fools and
murderers. Blinded by hubris. Faded relics of the Cold War. And now, in
the final act of the play, we are crawling away. Our empire is dying…….
The disintegration of Iraq is irreversible. At best, the Kurds, the
Shiites and the Sunnis will carve out antagonistic enclaves. At worst,
there will be a protracted civil war. This is what we have bequeathed to
Iraq. The spread of our military through the region has inflamed
jihadists across the Arab world. The resulting conflicts will continue
until we end our occupation of the Middle East. The callous slaughter we
deliver is no different from the callous slaughter we receive. Our
jihadists—George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld,
Richard Perle, Thomas Friedman and Tommy Franks—who assured us that
swift and overwhelming force in Iraq would transform the Middle East
into an American outpost of progress, are no less demented than the
jihadists approaching Baghdad. These two groups of killers mirror each
other. This is what we have spawned. And this is what we deserve.

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(Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in global security, peace and
conflict resolution with keen interests in Islamic-Western comparative
cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications including
the latest: Global Peace and Conflict Management: Man and Humanity in
Search of New Thinking. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, May 2012)

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